Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | HOARDING clothes has long been a British vice . |
| 32 | It has long been the largest voluntary nature conservation organisation in Europe . |
| 33 | On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century . |
| 34 | The parliamentary road to socialism has been the major tradition within Britain where the Labour Party has long been the dominant organisational force on the Left and amongst the working class . |
| 35 | Portree has long been the commercial centre of the Isle of Skye . |
| 36 | It has long been the French preference to maintain the Council as the primary decision-making body of the Community , and indeed to reinforce its role ; the Germans want greater powers for the Parliament in Strasbourg . |
| 37 | To be able to sell every vehicle that lands at a UK port and , as a result , to enjoy buoyant prices for used models , has long been the happy position for Mitsubishi 's UK importer , Colt Cars . |
| 38 | There has long been an unspoken consensus across the party spectrum that challenging the system would be to enter a political minefield . |
| 39 | As I mentioned earlier , the saithe or coalfish Gadus virens has long been an important fish in Shetland , the surface-shoaling immatures being utilised by many sea-birds . |
| 40 | On the contrary , the development of such instruments has only been a first step , preparatory to examining the reasons people differ on such traits . |
| 41 | We 've thrown in lots of youngsters but really the players ’ budget has basically been the same for five years , ’ he said . |
| 42 | The next pair of readings are concerned with what has perhaps been the single most salient political issue in British education in the twentieth century : the issue of inequality of opportunity and inequality of outcome between social classes — particularly between middle and working class children . |
| 43 | There has thus been no overall change in balances at the Bank of England , but banks ' holdings of call notes and bills have risen . |
| 44 | There has thus been a significant debate about the extent to which the state still dominates in international relations . |
| 45 | The Spanish Civil War has thus been the real focus of recent debate surrounding the British reaction to European fascism . |
| 46 | Historically sport has broadly been a cohesive force in imperial relations . |
| 47 | For it is quite clear that despite innovative legislation , the proliferation of enforcement agencies , the relatively new use of imprisonment for corporate offenders , and absolutely ( but not relatively ) large fines for offending corporations , there has not been a substantial brake on corporate crime . |
| 48 | As yet , however , there has not been a corresponding overhaul and harmonisation of the member countries ’ legal systems . |
| 49 | The Government can not say that because , by definition , the Government have to be comfortable with everything , but it has not been a profitable period for teachers in terms of their pay . |
| 50 | Given these considerations , there has not been a managerial revolution . |
| 51 | But not all of these have been discovered at the 1:50000 scale , and there has not been a systematic ley hunt over all 204 sheets . |
| 52 | A third factor is that there has not been a major epidemic in Britain for 20 years . |
| 53 | The economic significance of capital maintenance in the balance sheets of public sector organizations has not been a major concern of accountants in the past . |
| 54 | There has not been a total severance with education , however , as the trust still allocates money to young people of the parish for further and higher education . |
| 55 | ‘ There has not been a better centre half in the country for the last 18 months . ’ |
| 56 | One Shetland policeman said yesterday : ‘ It has not been a regular occurrence by any means . |
| 57 | A ‘ mixed economy of care ’ , with care being provided on similar terms by public and independent sectors , is not particularly new to local authorities , although the contracting of care from multiple organizations has not been a key policy in the past , more an ad hoc response to specific local problems . |
| 58 | Clearly it has not been a typical day , even for 5 Airborne Brigade ; yet such operations have taken place seventy-three times since the Second World War . |
| 59 | Because assessments of the spirit of community depend so much on highly variable subjective preferences and values , which may fluctuate according to the individual and the village concerned and even to the mood of the individual at a particular time , it is virtually impossible to generalize about whether there has or has not been a perceptible ‘ decline of community ’ in the English village . |
| 60 | Thompson 's career — the Daley record 1976 Olympic Games ( Montreal ) 18th 1977 European Juniors , 1st 1978 Commonwealth Games ( Edmonton ) lst European Championships ( Prague ) 2nd 1980 Olympic Games ( Moscow ) 1st World record ( Gotzis ) 8,648 pts 1982 World record ( Gotzis ) 8,730 pts European Championships ( Athens ) lst World record 8,774 Commonwealth Games , Brisbane , lst 1983 World Championships ( Helsinki ) lst 1984 Olympic Games ( Los Angeles ) lst World record 8,847 1986 Commonwealth Games ( Edinburgh ) lst European Championships ( Stuttgart ) lst 1987 World Championships ( Rome ) 9th 1988 Olympic Games ( Seoul ) 4th It has not been a good year for the class of ‘ 76 . |